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[[Category:New Reviews|Women's Fiction]]==Women's Fiction==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debbie Macomber1471180158|title=Hannah's List|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was a year since Dr Michael Everett's wife Hannah died from ovarian cancer and his grief was still as painful as ever. He certainly wasn't ready for what his brother-in-law, Hannah's brother, handed him. It was a letter which Hannah had written some time before her death and not only did she suggest that he should remarry, she went on to name three women she thought would make a good wife for him. Winter Adams was the chef who owned the café on blossom Street, Leanne Lancaster had been Hannah's nurse, but who was Macy Roth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303799</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaybe Tomorrow|author=Hester Browne|title=The Finishing TouchesPenny Parkes

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=As Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the daughter subtlety of its ownera half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and a highly experience management consultant to bootthe more you read, Betsy is the obvious choice more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to call for help in turning around take time off at short notice - she's a finishing school failing to make the grade frequent flier in 21st century London. Except... Betsy never attended the school as a student, local A&E and shesometimes Bo's not so much 'management consultant' as she is 'shop assistant' – a distinction many a proud parent could fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be forgiven for missingcontrolled and put in the wrong. With the Tallimore Academy facing financial ruin, however, Betsy isn't so much their best hope as she is their only hope It was going to come to a head.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340937807</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allie SpencerLauren Bravo|title=The Not-So Secret Diary of a City GirlPreloved|rating=3.54

|summary=Banking analyst, Laura McGregor has Gwen is pressing her secret diary accidentally uploaded to middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the Internet. The diary contains her thoughts about her lacklustre relationship with toss - Gwen finds herself having atrader, her attraction towards bit of a “dirtmid-digging journalist” life crisis. Catharsis is key and massive discrepancies in Gwen has decided now is the accounts of time to take back her new manager.life'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352947</amazonuk>1398510629

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie Fforde0008506337|title=A Perfect Proposal|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I have read most of Katie Fforde's books and each and every one has proved to be enjoyable and entertaining. A Perfect Proposal comes up to the same high standard and, having just finished reading it, it has left me wanting more! Her style is very relaxed and easy going and she always creates believable characters that you can't help caring about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846054494</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Wilson|title=A Change of Fortune|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Leonie Conyngham seemed to have everything going for her. She was beautiful and set to be the belle of the forthcoming season, but a family disaster stripped her of her position as the most important pupil in her school and placed her there as the lowliest teacher, there to do the bidding of those above her. Her possessions stolen and in debt she had little choice in the matter. Her physical attractions have not left her though, but now the young rakes of London are not looking at her as a possible wife, but to see who can be the first to deprive her of her virtue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089996</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Morgan|title=Salt Blue|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=I always judge a book by its cover. The eyes in the pretty face on the cover of ''Salt Blue'' are arresting, but difficult to assign to a period, though it’s clearly women’s or teen fiction. I imagine that the cover might attract fiction readers of mainstream women’s magazines such as Women’s Weekly or Woman’s Own, so it’s spot on for the story inside.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784159</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGarnett Girls|author=Kate Lawson|title=Mother of the BrideGeorgina Moore

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=This is the story of Jess Foster who is busily preparing for her forthcoming marriage to Max PorterThe love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, willingly aided apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her mum, Molly, away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and her stepmother, Marniehaving a glittering career. It soon becomes apparent though that In the women have different ideasevent, particularly opinionated Marnie who seems set on Jess having they eloped and Richard took her away from the society wedding Isle of the year Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and even goes as far as hiring went on to become a wedding plannerwell-respected journalist. Molly The couple had three children: Rachel, on the other handImogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, agrees with Jess that things should really be kept simple. Thus the scene is well set for all family home on the moods and mayhem which occurs when arranging a weddingIsle of Wight. Will Jess be able to stick to her guns and arrange Even then the type of wedding that doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she wants or will it just would never be easier able to give leave him in to other suggestions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561179</amazonuk>}}charge''.

{{newreview|author=Liane Moriarty|title=What Alice Forgot|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary='This wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to her…it was just the most ridiculous' laments thirty nine year old mother of three, Alice, who has had the last ten years of her life struck from her memory by a blow to the head in her step aerobics classThen Richard left them. Alice now thinks she's twenty nine, newly pregnant with her first child and happily married to Nick and furthermore she hasn't a clue what she's doing at an aerobics class in the first place. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043768</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elin HilderbrandHadeer Elsbai|title=The CastawaysDaughters of Izdihar|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=On Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the island lives of Nantuckettwo women who could not be more different, four couples have forged strong bonds yet find themselves fighting for the rights of friendshipwomen and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Together they live and loveNehal, raise their childrenborn into the upper class, share their dreams. It's an idyllic existence wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and at then join the same time a very purposeful onemilitary, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. The couples Giorgina on the other hand did not have worked hard a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to create the quality of life they now enjoy provide for her family and nothing can take it away from them. Until now. Greg and Tess are deadmaintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the result Daughters of what appears to be Izdihar – a sailing accidentgroup campaigning for women's rights. They leave behind two young children, and six devastated friends, all of whom have Giorgina also happens to come to terms be in love with what has happenedNico. For some there What follows is guilt over final words said or final warnings left unsaid. For others, there is the knowledge that secret relationships will now have to stay that way evermore. 'The Castaways' is the book a story of that fateful summeran unjust society, the accident filled with hypocrisy and its aftermathcruelty, but it's more than just that. It's from which blossoms a look at the precious role friends group of admirable women fighting for their rights and family play in our lives, and how innocent actions or words can change the course of history foreverovercoming their personal obstacles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340919825</amazonuk>0356520471

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen AbbottB0B575J99N|title=A Most Rebellious Debutante|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Lucy Templeton, daughter of Lord Templeton, fell in love with her dancing master. It wasn't entirely unusual for a seventeen year old girl to feel this way, but it was better that it was unheard of when she was caught in his arms. A substantial sum of money for Beneath the dancing master ensured that he would disappear and Lucy was sent to stay with her married sister as punishment. She was not to attend parties or social functions and must spend her time looking after her sister's young children and doing good works, until such time as the Templetons could get her married off. All might have gone according to their plan had she not had a chance encounter with the notorious Lord Rockhaven and a stolen kiss catches her heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090315</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPorticoes|author=Jojo Moyes|title=The Horse DancerBrooke Adams

|summary=Only two things in life matter to fourteen-yearElizabeth Miller was thirty-old Sarah: her horse Boo four and her grandfather Henri Lachapellea teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. Henri sees SarahIt was ''comfortable''s skill at horsemanship as her way out of their inner city London but she longed for something more in life . She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and wants her now was the time to follow make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in his footsteps Bologna. After a telephone interview, she was offered the position and become a member of Franceit wasn's elite equestrian academy Le Cadre Noirt long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961600</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mavis Cheek0241542405|title=Truth to TellMeredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Robert Porter was angryWhen we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. The politician filling the television screen was lyingShe'd ''like'' to: in fact, she so nearly does. He knew itHer outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her train. He railed against it and said politician would have thought himself lucky not to be there in personThen, she can't. Nina only managed She simply can't force herself to calm leave the safety of her husband by enquiring whether he would like red or white wine home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with the meal her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and had that been the end of the matter then that would have been the end full of the matter – if you see what I meansound common sense. But the telephone rang and In fact it was RobertSadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's boss with details of the teamalso an internet-bonding office trip to Floridabased support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Robert assured him that he was really keen to go (he wasn't) and Nina was looking forward to it too (she wasn't)Then Tom McDermott arrives. And then Nina started wondering about the difference between the politicianHe's lies and Robertfrom Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's, er, evasions. Surely it must be possible to tell the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091931673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo Moyes0008441618|title=The Last Letter From Your LoverOther Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=4.5

|summary=I do love a story Jo Fairburn knew that wraps me she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up completely within its little world, making me want to ignore my long list her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of things the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to do and just curl up reading all daythe school. Jojo MoyesThere was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable' new novel certainly managed it', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. I felt transported back Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to the 1960Jo's, entirely caught up restrictions on the toys children could bring in the characters' lives, riding their highs and lows alongside of them, and I ended up desperately foisting my on Toy Day but that was just-wokena warm-up toddler onto my husband so that I could just read the last four pages without her hanging off my arm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340961627</amazonuk>act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy WoodmanGiovanna Fletcher|title=Trust Me, I'm a VetWalking on Sunshine|rating=4.5

|summary=Though IMike'm not a pet owner and as such had never thought too much about its wife, I believed this book when it told me there are two types of vets (three if you count the Vietnam kindPia, though who he was with for these purposes let's not)seventeen years, has died. NoAnd whilst he is dealing with his grief, I mean the city type who look after poodles and hamsters and maybe the odd depressed gold fishso are their best friends, Vicky and the country kind who stick their hands up cowsZaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' bottoms for funto follow, knowing that she was dying and think horses that they would need help to carry on living. Whilst some of the rules are man's second best friend, around practicalities such as well as essential equipment for extracurricular activities. Maz definitely falls into the first category, but when clearing out her love life gets as sticky as a cancerous canine tumourwardrobe, she realises another one that London is not the place Mike discovers one day encourages him to be any more. An opportunity arises at the rather tweely named ''Otter'' ''House'' ''Veterinary'' ''Clinic''take one of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and she seizes ittheir own life troubles, pleased decide to have a reason to flee the capitaldrop everything in their own lives, at least temporarilyand go along with him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099543567</amazonuk>140593560X

  {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeannie MachinB09FS89KX9|title=My Lady Domino|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Adele Russell serves behind the counter in a haberdashers and lives over the shop. It wasn't always like that though as it's only a few years since she was a wealthy heiress engaged to marry an earl, but after her father's financial ruin and his death in a fire her fiancé broke off the relationship and Adele was lucky to be taken in by her old nurse. It's taken some time to come to terms with what happened and Adele has reconciled herself to her lowly position until she finds an invitation to a masked ball. What harm would there be in her wearing her mother's ball gown and domino, just for a taste of how things used to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089988</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFall On Me|author=Val Harris|title=Sea CreaturesPenelope Potts

|summary=Rowena Moon and her husband Brendan lived on the Cornish coast with their three children, Jenna, Charlie and Olivia. Life should have been good for Hollie: Brendan She was an artist – and a reasonably successful one. Rowena ran a local café and the children had just going into the freedom final year of the local beach. It sounds like, her veterinary degree and probably was, an idyllic childhood until one day Rowena disappeared without warning and without explanation. It was devastating and affected each of the children in different ways as they grew up. Twenty two - three years later the five are reunited and the mystery of their past unravels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599741</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sandra Heath|title=A Commercial Enterprise|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Caroline is a Lexham, but she- was still working at BB's not one of ''the'' Lexhams as her father made a rather unfortunate marriagediner. In consequence she's rather surprised to be invited to Bob - the reading of owner - regarded her uncle's willfondly: he was a good boss. She didn't know him, Hollie had no expectations and probably wouldn't have gone to London if she hadn't been trying to escape the attentions of a pressing suitor. The journey there is tryingmoved in with her boyfriend, but she's rescued by Sir Hal Seymour who gives Marcus: her a lift mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his carriagecareer. It might have got Caro Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to the reading on time, but she made an enemy control her and most of his mistress who had hopes of becoming his wife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070908997X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Jewell|title=After the Party|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's been eleven years since Ralph and Jem finally became an item all he wanted her to leave her job at the end of Lisa Jewell's first novel Ralph's Partydiner. After buying a house in South London and having two children their once exciting, romantic and crazy relationship has gradually become consumed by responsibility and domesticity. Jem has become bogged down with motherhood and running a home and just wishes Ralph Then there was the fact that he would help out a bit as she struggles to start working again. Ralph, unsure of his role in the familybe violent, has gradually drifted away both physically and emotionally from Jem to her and his children, preferring to spend as much time as possible painting in his studioother people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846055733</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Eckstein0008421714|title=The Cloths of HeavenMrs March|author=Virginia Feito

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=WeThe problem began just after the publication of George March're in West Africa in s most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the early nineteen ninetieslast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. There's Every day Mrs March went to the usual mix of expatriates and diplomatic staff doing their best local patisserie to do their best whilst still making buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the most of bread, ''but isn't this the freedoms such first time he's based a life gives. character on you?'' Isabel is married to iconoclastic photographer Patrick Redmond and copes better than most wives would with She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her husbandmannerisms''s fixation with pendulous black breasts. There Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is gossip though. The High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both involved in illicit affairsthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, with more or less discretionunloveable wretch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954930983</amazonuk>''

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Trisha Ashley1473685745|title=Chocolate WishesUnbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4.5

|summary=I know one should never judge a book by its coverWhen Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but somehow I always doJake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. So I When he was expecting some lightborn, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-hearted chickheart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-lit protective particularly when I began this booksomeone isn't looking where they're driving. I was }} {{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a little startled bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to find several mentions the throne of tarot cardsEdward VIII with his wife, Mayan charmsQueen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and guardian angels we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi- styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a somewhat bizarre spiritual mixture caste system, ranging from high- within brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the first pagesparty line before they're stamped ready for reprint. WhatThat is her job, at least, I wondereduntil the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, had I got myself into?with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847561144</amazonuk>152941198X

 {{newreview|author=Margaret Leroy|title=The Perfect Mother|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Perfection pervades every corner of Catriona's life She has a beautiful home, a charming husband, a well-behaved stepdaughter, and a cherished daughter of her own, 8-year-old Daisy. When Daisy is taken ill, Catriona does all a good mother would do to help her get better. But as Daisy's condition deteriorates with no sign of improvement, Catriona seeks more and more medical intervention, until eventually she is accused of being responsible for her daughter's illness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susannah Bates Ruth Hogan|title=Under a Sapphire SkyMadame Burova

|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=Marianne Cooper is happyThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. She has So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a thriving jewellery business with her best friend Gabby girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and is six months pregnant with GabbyClairvoyant''s brother Jay, to use her family's babysea-front booth. Marianne enjoys her passion for stonesThe singer, her unconventional attitude to life the scryer and her pregnancythe sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, and but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her unique relationship with Jay, but when on her ex boyfriendlast day, and reformed manfifty years later, Paul comes back into her life with his fiancée Sophie and in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a rare padparascha stone he wants Marianne to turn into an engagement ringwoman called Billie. Just who is she, she soon finds herself questioning and who delivered the secrets about her decision to reject Paul Imelda, and indeed her way of life.why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099445441</amazonuk>152937331X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise HarwoodJennifer Saint |title=Kiss Like You Mean ItAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=This book re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is a modern-day love interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story. It's all about trendy characters with trendy names living rather trendy lives in glossy location sets. The title gives a very clear message as way that is sympathetic to its contents. Romantic fiction which will appeal generally origins but also appealing to womena modern audience. But thereSaint's also a story within a story (and for me the more interesting one) which narrative is told predominantly through the Hollywood movie being filmed in Europe. It takes us back viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the first World War and reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroic actions heroics of one young man, in particularTheseus.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330442090</amazonuk>1472273869

 {{newreview|author=Laurie Graham|title=Life According to Lubka|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Buzz Wexler is at the top of her game, working in music PR with all the latest up and coming Urban music bands like Grime Beat and Evil Marsupial. She's forty-two years old but is still out every night, drinking, eating very little and seemingly surviving on a diet of chemical mood enhancers. One day, however, she is called into her manager's office and assigned a tour with a 'World Music' group, the Gorni Grannies, a group of elderly women from Bulgaria who sing together. Buzz finds her life in the fast lane is brought to a sudden halt, as she tries to control a group of elderly ladies touring England who think that lifts are powered by black magic and that Poundland is the best shop ever invented. Yet this is just the beginning of a whole new life for Buzz.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161828</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janet Mullany|title=Improper Relations|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Unlucky in love Charlotte Hayden has just lost her best friend and confidante Ann in marriage to the Earl of Beresford. At the wedding she encounters Lord Shadderly, Beresford's best friend, a broodingly handsome man whom she takes an immediate dislike to. Before she knows it Charlotte is caught in a compromising situation with Shadderly and he is forced to propose to her or risk both their reputations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347803</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorothy KoomsonLucy Holland|title=The Ice Cream GirlsSistersong

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Poppy Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and Serenafairy tales. These stories, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by for most of us, are a rapacious presscornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, have their young lives shattered by examining relationships and re-evaluating the man they shared, role of women. Sistersong is a teacher in perfect example of a position of trustmodern retelling done well, who controlled them in the worst possible ways. The girls are trapped as victims because neither has plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the assertiveness or maturity characters to handle the situation. Chance intervenes come to life, to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years onfeel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesstorytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>1529039037

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren GrodsteinB08NF79QXT|title=A Friend of the FamilyCherry Blossom Boutique|author=Brooke Adams|rating=43

|summary=Thirty-one-year old Liberty Rossini has had her shop, the Cherry Blossom Boutique, for just six months when she'A Friend of s nominated for - and wins - the FamilyRetail Best Newcomer Award. She' is an intriguing s delighted and enjoyable read. Set in a wealthy New Jersey neighbourhood, it tells the story of two couples who have been friends for many yearspeople she's brought with her to the event couldn't be more pleased. Peter Dizinoff Sonja, her mother, is an ex-model and Joe Stern graduated Brazilian: you can see where Liberty got her looks from medical school together . Jessica's thirty-four and their wives, Elaine and Iris have Liberty's best friend: they've known each other for just as longsince university and Liberty adores Jessica's husband, Charles and their four-year-old daughter, Ava. In many ways their privileged lives have been almost Life would be perfect – that is until for Liberty if it wasn't for one thing: she misses having a shocking event occurs and the two couples react man in such different ways that it shatters their friendship and threatens their comfortable existenceher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533359</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate LongB08GFSK2WZ|title=A Mother's Guide to CheatingThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54

|summary=When Jaz discovers a random text message on her husband IanGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's phone, it does not take a genius to work out had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the meaning karma trap: an awful lot of a message as personal as 'what did you dream last night?', followed by kisses bad luck is being visited on her and she has a strange womanreal talent for attracting drama. Her life's name. Nor does it take a genius to figure out chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the precise nature bottom of what Ian has been up the stairs to with absorb the water - then the shower fell through the sender. A subsequent confession and proclamation from Ian that 'roof whilst she was in it meant nothing; she is nothing' does not diminish Jaz's rage and he is dispatchedleft her, forthwithstark naked, from staring at the family homepervy postman. As is the norm in these kind of situations, you turn She only has to the people you most trust take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to help you through end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and reinforcements in a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the shape of Jaz's mother, Carol, swiftly arriveoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377505</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise DouglasB08CHJLNBS|title=Missing YouCapturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=4.53

|summary=Sean seemed to have He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the perfect lifeMayfair letting agents. He has a successful careerShe's Emilia, a beautiful wife to whom he is devotedtwenty-nine, a daughter whom he adores librarian and he lives archivist in a dream homethe heritage library next door. But then one day it all falls apart when Belle announces Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like that she has met , which leave you dependent on someone else and wants Sean 's philosophies, to move outsomething a little deeper. Fen Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, on the other handbut, above all, doesnhe's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''t have a perfect life. She works in a bookshop and is devoted to her young sonThey're obviously not at all compatible, Connor who has cerebral palsy. so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? ThatShe's not the least of her problems though as she hides a dreadful secret and fearful that his usual type at all: it will be brought out into the open she lives a life drawn in on itself, far from her home and family and reluctant 's obvious to become close to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie Fforde (Editor) and Sue Moorcroft (Editor)|title=Loves Me, Loves Me Not|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=What a feast is presented in these forty stories from well-loved and prolific romantic authors, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Romantic Novelists' Associationhis friends. In a WhoAnd given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's Who of the genresuperficiality, there are writers from every age group, including one or two who might even have been founder members of the RNA, back in 1960. why does she feel drawn to him? My advice is to sip through the stories slowlyThe relationship's obviously a non-starter, rather than gobbling them up quickly and suffering from indigestion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303373</amazonuk>isn't it?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverHelly Acton|title=Before I FallThe Shelf|rating=54|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Samantha When we meet Amy, she'Sam' Kingston is, s in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sistersa relationship with Jamie. Today You can't really call it's Cupid Daya partnership, a chance because things tend to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sentget done on his terms, but Samshe's not too worried about thatsticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. She knows sheHaven's part of t we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a group who, by most definitions, would surprise trip. Could this be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, sheit? Is he 's the definition of 'finally'in''.going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>1838770879

{{newreview|author=Suzanne Bugler|title=This Perfect World|rating=5|genre=WomenWhen Mike Parker's Fiction|summary=Laura Hamley sees herself as girlfriend comes into school with a fortunate womanblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. She Her relationship has a successful husband, two beautiful children, a big house in a good neighbourhood, just ended and a coterie now she's the talk of friends who fall nicely into the category of people like usschool. She's Mike was the most popular boy in school who was always beautifully turned outso in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and her position in the social pecking order some don't, but one thing is never less than high. She simply shrugs off the occasional moments of dissatisfaction - what on Earth could she have for sure, this isn't going to complain about? And then Mrs Partridge makes an unwelcome phone call..blow over any time soon. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023074401X</amazonuk>0349003297

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie CohenKatie Fforde|title=Nina Jones and the Temple of GloomA Springtime Affair|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=A sign of a good book, I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for me, often relates to how easily I can put it down. And then how ages and this was pretty much exactly what I want to pick it back up again. Nina Jones was expecting - a particular challenge for me as after reading it for an hour whilst my toddler napped I kept my thumb in the page whilst getting her out of bedwarm, snuck her downstairs still saving my page, put cosy read focused on Cbeebiesromance, family and then sat next to her on the sofa to carry on reading for at least another hour, if not a little bit more than thatfriendships. I then kept it in the kitchen so I could sneak a few more pages in between stirring the spaghetti. And then once my daughter was in bed I went on to absently ignore my poor, tired, over-worked husband (who got bored and went This provided two romances for a bath) so that I could read on to the end price of the story. I found myself mentally yelling at a fictional character (I hope one, but it was mentally and I wasn't actually shouting out loud...we have very thin walls), I swooned over the hero, sniggered often and family element as opposed to the romance that I even cried a little bit tooreally enjoyed. So, a book that induces such family neglect and an emotional roller coaster of emotions is definitely a good read!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755341414</amazonuk>1780897561

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melanie RoseB07W4MNBSG|title=Coming HomeBe Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=We meet the narrator of this story drinking coffee from a thermos It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a laygroup of sixth-byform schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on a cold grey daywho you marry''. All her worldly possessions are travelling with her The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in her cara farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, including her cator perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham. She has clearly made some momentous decision, and is on her way The place to somewhere newstart their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. I assumed that as story unfolded, I'd learn more about her and where she There was goingjust one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561063</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Stephanie Tillotson|title=Cut Move on the Biasto [[Features|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=If ''Cut on the Bias'' is in your local bookshop, you will surely be won over by the feisty cover. Stories about women and their clothes are about identity, so what better start to a set of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>}}latest features]]